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June 16th, 2016
June 16th, 2016
Barbara Poma, owner of Pulse, appeared on NBC's The Today Show this morning to speak for the first time about what happened early Sunday morning. She described the club as "a safe, fun place to come be who you are." And she described that phone call she got that morning:
It was the most surreal phone call I've ever received. When my manager called me and told me, and he was just yelling into the phone. He kept saying, "We have a shooter! We have a shooter!" I just kept screaming, "What?" And finally it sunk in and… you can't wrap your brain around that. You can't.
… I can't stop imagining what that was like for them… I don't think I'll ever stop that.
She opened Pulse about thirteen years ago in honor of her brother, who had died of AIDS. She chose to name the club Pulse "because it has to do with your heartbeat. It has to do with your life, and we just wanted to keep the heartbeat alive."
Lauer asked how her mission would change as she goes from honoring one person to now honoring 49:
We just welcome those families into our family. And we just have to move forward and find a way to keep their hearts beating and keep our spirit alive. And we're not going to let someone take this away from us. …I have to go back to that club.
After the interview, Matt Lauer added that she told him, "It's important never to let hate win."
June 16th, 2016
On Tuesday, Anderson Cooper held Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi accountable for her years of opposition to marriage equality, and he took particular issue with her argument that allowing gays to marry in Florida would "impose significant public harm". Bondi's prominent media presence in the aftermath of the Pulse gay night club massacre presenting herself as a valiant defender of the LGBT community, has raised eyebrows in the LGBT community that remembers her previously strenuous efforts to block same-sex message. Since then, Bondi has been more or less pretending she was never involved in that fight.
Yesterday, Bondi was on WOR's "Len Berman and Todd Schnitt in the Morning" complaining that she was blindsided by Cooper's grilling on her same-sex marriage stance and that "completely flipped and got into a constitutional issue of course." She also said that Cooper's questions were out of line and that she was asked to speak with him on the air under false pretences. "The interview was supposed to be about helping people's families, not creating more anger and havoc and hatred yesterday. Yesterday was about unity, about bringing people together, about helping people."
Yesterday, Cooper responded to Bondi's allegations:
…She's either mistaken or she's not telling the truth. Let's be real here. Miss Bondi's big complaint seems to be that I asked in the first place, in the wake of a massacre that targeted gay and lesbian citizens about her new statements about the gay community and about her old ones.
…For the record, my interview was not filled with any anger. I was respectful before the interview, I was respectful during the interview and I was respectful after the interview. I don't know Pam Bondi personally, she seems like a nice person actually. I don't think she has hate in her heart.
But what I think doesn't matter. Its my job to hold people accountable. If on Sunday a politician was talking love and embracing quote "our LGBT community," I don't think it's unfair to look at their record and see if they have actually ever spoken that way publicly before which I never heard her say.
The fact is, Attorney General Bondi signed off on a 2014 federal court brief that claimed married gay people would pose 'significant public harm'. Harm. She spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money. Gay and straight taxpayers money, trying to keep gays and lesbians from getting the right to marry. Now look, good people can and do disagree on that issue. everyone has a right to their own opinion thank goodness. But Ms. Bondi is championing right now her efforts to help survivors but the very right which allows gay spouses to bury their dead loved ones – that's a right that would not exist if Ms Bondi had had her way. I think it's fair to ask her about that. There is an irony in that.
Here is that brief Cooper mentioned (PDF: 131KB/34 pages):
Governor Rick Scott, Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi, State Surgeon General John H. Armstrong, and Secretary Craig J. Nichols (the "State Officials"), pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b), move to dismiss the amended complaints in these consolidated cases. This Court lacks jurisdiction to consider the claims against all but the DMS Secretary, and all claims fail on the merits. The Court should also deny the preliminary injunction motions because there is no likelihood of success on the merits, there is no immediacy requiring a preliminary injunction, and disrupting Florida's existing marriage laws would impose significant public harm.
…This Court also must balance the alleged harm to the parties against the public interest. An injunction would irreparably harm the State of Florida. Plaintiffs seek to enjoin a duly enacted constitutional amendment and statutory law. Enjoining democratically enacted legislation harms state officials by restraining them from implementing the will of the people that they represent. [Emphasis mine]
And by the way, I still can't find Bondi's "rainbow hands" here, here, or here.
June 15th, 2016
The video is not embeddable, but this rather interesting TV media monitoring service has it along with a transcript. Yesterday evening, during a vigil held at Orlando's First Baptist Church, Pastor Joel C. Hunter of the unaffiliated evangelical Northland Church in suburban Longwood, invited The Task Force's National Campaigns Director Victoria Kirby York to teach the Baptist gathering about how to pray for the particular needs of LGBT people in Orlando:
Pastor Hunter: When they asked me to pray for the LGBTQ community, at first I was honored and thrilled, and then I was convicted. I'm not sure how to do that. I've never been a part of a vulnerable community. I've been a part of powerful communities all my life and never been a part of a persecuted community. Short doesn't count.
When we lose someone, we have two feelings immediately. One is we wish we'd is have built a better relationship. And the other is — and I've been searching my heart — is there anything I did that was complicit in that loss? I'm going to continue searching. But i will not presume to know what this community is going through, the LGBTQ community. And so i asked Equality Florida to send someone. And my new friend, Victoria Kirby York, who is the national director of campaigns for the National LGBTQ Task Force — I'm going to keep saying those initials often enough that they roll off my tongue. I asked her to come and just share maybe with many of us who would not know what to pray for in that community right now. What to consider that we might not you understand. Victoria, could you help us?
Victoria Kirby York: Good evening, beloved community. Thank you so much for being here, for standing in the gap for so many of our community members. Some of you who are here, so many who aren't here, those who are watching and those who wish they could be here. I grew up about 50 minutes away from here in a town called Brandon, Florida, and lived here until recently and have a lot of friends across central Florida. Many who frequent Pulse nightclub. Many who lost friends Sunday. And as I heard about the news, like many of you, I was heartbroken. I wanted to search out ways in which i could come back home to Florida and get engaged, see what I could do to provide any kind of healing that I could do. And I can tell you that standing up here right now looking at all of you is such a beautiful sight. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about why it matters so much to the LGBTQ community that each and every one of you are here in a church.
..As the national campaign director of a national LGBTQ organization, I look into the faces of so many people who have been kicked out and rejected by their churches. 13-year-olds who are forced to live on the street because they've been kicked out of their homes. 35% of homeless youth in this country are LGBTQ youth, even though we represent less than 5% of the population. and many of those young people have been kicked out because they have family members, parents specifically, who have not accepted who they are and who they love. We also look at the suicide rates amongst LGBTQ people, particularly youth. Again, over a third of suicides, one of the leading causes of death, sadly, for far too many young people come from the LGBTQ community. Again, less than 5% of the population. So death has been a reality that we experience for those who have attempted to take their lives, for the dozens of transgender women particularly of color who have lost heir lives due to hate crimes over the last couple of years and before.
And so when we look at that question how we can make good come out of this moment, my charge to you all for this prayer is for grace, for graceful conversations with each other and for each other. To come into those conversations on both sides from a place of wanting to understand, wanting to heal, wanting to emphasize. Because our community for far too many years have never witnessed a sight like this, a church where they can come, be prayed over and not be forced to change who they are, or who they love. For some people this image that I'm staring at right now exists only in their dreams.
Update: Christianity Today has more about Joel Hunter:
The senior pastor of Northland Church, a 20,000 member, nondenominational church, admitted that "institutional forms of white Christianity" have been complicit in the denigration of LGBT communities, but expressed hope for "the next generation" of Christians.
Speaking in the aftermath of the massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Hunter told RNS that he had "to go back and examine my own heart, starting tonight in services.
"I've got to confess to my congregation that if there's anything I've said that could have ever led to anything — the dismissal or denigration of any other population — God, I am so sorry for that."
He admitted that "many of us, especially those in the conservative evangelical branch of the faith, don't normally think of the vulnerability of many of the communities around us…but this has put it on the agenda.
Hunter says he's not quite ready to change some of his theological positions as a "matter of hermeneutical integrity", he admitted "there's much of scripture that can come up to a greater visibility when it comes to treating people who don't interpret scripture like you do or who may not believe in scripture at all." Which is pretty much how all movement among religious people start.
June 14th, 2016
"They are more than a list of names. They are people who loved and who were loved." – @andersoncooper #Orlando https://t.co/DkxxPC1XtW
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) June 14, 2016
June 14th, 2016
NBC has just broken this story:
Omar Mateen's current wife, Noor, told the FBI she was with him when he bought ammunition and a holster, several officials familiar with the case said. She told the FBI that she once drove him to the gay nightclub, Pulse, because he wanted to scope it out.
Noor is cooperating with investigators. She may face charges for failing to notify authorities about what she knew before the attack.
June 13th, 2016
Adding to what the Orlando Sentinel published earlier, we now have this report from the Canadian Press:
A drag-dancing married couple described seeing Mateen as many as a dozen times at the gay-friendly nightclub where he'd later embark on the single worst gun massacre in modern American history.
Ty Smith and Chris Callen recalled the eventual killer being escorted drunk from the Pulse bar on multiple occasions, including one incident where he pointed a knife at a friend.
Both professed shock at seeing his face on TV: "It's the same guy," said Callen, who performs under the name Kristina McLaughlin. "He's been going to this bar for at least three years."
They expressed incredulity at the story being told by Mateen's father in the wake of the shooting, that the gunman had once been scandalized during a visit to Miami by the sight of men kissing each other.
They say Mateen saw plenty of men kiss — and far closer to home than Miami.
"That's bullcrap, right there. No offence. That's straight-up crap. He's been around us," Smith said Monday in an interview at the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida.
Smith and Callen also describe an incident that corroborates other stories of Mateen's explosive temper:
They said they decided to keep their distance from Mateen after he exploded in anger at a joke told by one of their friends, possibly about religion: "He ended up pulling a knife," Callen said.
"He said if he ever messed with him again, you know how it'll turn out."
Another witness a local television station another detail:
Kevin West said the shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, contacted him three months ago through a dating app called Jack'd.
"When he first contacted me, he was saying things like, 'What clubs are popping and things of that sort, what are good places to go?'" West said. "And I remember telling him, 'Oh, you can just look it up online because I don't go out that much."
West told the station that he turned the communications over to the FBI.
This thread seems to be picking up steam. Chris Hayes tweeted this teaser:
I talked to regular today who said the same. And that his friends recognized him as well. https://t.co/HOCEq1q4C9
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 13, 2016
The man I spoke with today also said the shooter has messaged him on a gay dating app. His friend as well. We'll run the interview tonight.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 13, 2016
June 13th, 2016
Remember this photo of Juan Ramon Guerrero and Drew Leinonen? When I posted this last night, Juan was confirmed dead, and his boyfriend Drew was missing. Since then, he too was confirmed dead. They had been together for two years and wanted to get married. Their families now say that instead of a wedding, they will be buried side by side.
"They were honestly so in love. They were soul mates. You can tell by how they looked at each other," (said Juan's sister). "It's a little comforting that they died together."
"If it's not a funeral, they were going to have a wedding together," she added.
June 13th, 2016
The East Orlando Post reported that other gay bars in the Orlando area found that Omar Mateen had been using social media to gain information prior to Sunday's attack at Pulse. Now the Orlando Sentinel said that he had been surveilling Pulse directly:
At least four regular customers at the gay Orlando nightclub where a gunman killed 49 people Sunday morning said today that they believe they had seen the killer, Omar Mateen, there before.
"Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent," said Ty Smith, who also uses the name Aries.
He saw Mateen at the club at least a dozen times, he told the Orlando Sentinel.
"We didn't really talk to him a lot, but I remember him saying things about his dad at times," Smith said. "He told us he had a wife and child.
June 13th, 2016
Sitora Yusufiy, 27 and the ex-wife of Pulse night club shooter Omar Mateen, has come forward to described her two-year abusive marriage to Mateen. She said that when they first met on Myspace in 2008, and married after a short engagement, ""He was a normal guy, joking, laughing, you know, like having fun."
Mateen was religious but not radical. Born in New York, Mateen came from an Afghan family but was "Americanized," Yusufiy said. Yusufiy, who now lives in Colorado, is Uzbekistani but had lived in the United States for nearly a decade before the marriage.
Yusufiy said Mateen desperately wanted to be a policeman and hung out with a lot of cops, often going to the shooting range with them.
But just a few weeks into the marriage, Yusufiy said, Mateen started showing another side, one of anger and control. She said Mateen made her get a job and then took the money she made.
"It was just his personal form on control. He wanted to control me and do whatever he [could] to keep me hostage," she said.
When he was angry, he would sometimes rant about homosexuals, Yusufiy said.
"In those moments of emotional instability, he would express his anger towards [a] certain culture, homosexuality, because in Islamic culture, it is not really tolerated, homosexuality. And I know at the time he was trying to get his life straight and follow his faith," she said.
One former co-worker at the Port St. Lucie security firm that employed Matteen confirmed to the New York Times Mateen's bigotry and erratic behavior:
According to Mr. Gilroy, who said that he had repeatedly complained to G4S, the security company that employed them, Mr. Mateen was a loud, profane presence who was prone to using racial, ethnic and sexual slurs.
Mr. Gilroy, a former police officer in Fort Pierce, described Mr. Mateen as a man who had "issues and just constant anger."
"He was just agitated about everything, always shaken, always agitated, always mad," said Mr. Gilroy, who said his relationship with Mr. Mateen became increasingly tense, with Mr. Mateen badgering him with text messages 20 or 30 times a day.
According to the FBI, Mateen had, at various times, expressed admiration for Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, and, just before the attack, ISIS. Observers note the confusing contradictions in those endorsements: all three groups are bitter enemies of each other. According to the Guardian:
The full extent of Mateen's motivations may have been complex and less clear than immediately apparent, though. A knowledgeable US official told the Guardian that while the federal investigation was in the earliest stages, an initial hypothesis regarding the shooter's motive leaned closer to a hate crime than an act of terrorism.
"The idea of it being terrorism is not off the table, but it's probably not the principal approach," said the official, who would not be identified by name or agency in discussing a fast-moving investigation. "There are other reasons to believe it was motivated toward a very specific kind of community, obviously."
That investigation was still determining if the shooting was "terrorism or a massive, massive hate crime", the official said. The official emphasized that all hypotheses were preliminary.
June 13th, 2016
The East Orlando Post reports:
Micah Bass, owner of the recently opened Revere Nightclub and The M Hotel, informed the East Orlando Post that Mateen had sent him a friend request on Facebook late last week.
"With running The M and Revere, I constantly get requests from LGBT allies, performers, and potential guests who just want to have fun and spend time with family and friends."
Earlier today, Bass notified the FBI of Mateen's activity on social media and is reviewing security footage to see if the suspected shooter or any potential accomplices did, in fact, visit the property in the weeks leading up Sunday's tragedy at Pulse.
…Veteran investigator and former Orlando law enforcement officer James Copenhaver observed that Mateen could have very well investigated several venues before selecting Pulse Nightclub to carry out what Florida Governor Rick Scott has called a "terrorist attack."
"My training and experience suggest the shooter was scoping out LGBT clubs by friending club owners, club staff, and even customers of the LGBT clubs in the Orlando area on social media."
The Daily Agenda for Monday, June 13
These are the names of the dead as of late last night.
Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 years old. (No photo available as of 10:15 PDT.)
… And 39 others.
June 12th, 2016
The Hill reports:
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility Sunday for a deadly nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., that left 50 dead and 53 injured. "The attack that targeted a nightclub for homosexuals in Orlando, Florida and that left more than 100 dead and wounded was carried out by an Islamic State fighter," ISIS said in a statement. The organization offered no proof for the attacks.
ISIS' claim of responsibility came several hours after news of the attack hit the news. It's important to remember that authorities have not established a connection between the Orlando shooter Omar Mateen and ISIS. Friends, family, and an ex-wife all say he was not particularly religious. Co-workers at the security company he worked for called the FBI in 2013 after he made comments about terrorist connections, but the FBI investigation found no basis for concern. The FBI investigated in 2014 over potential ties with someone who became an Al-Quida suicide bomber in Syria. That investigation was inconclusive.
The FBI did put him on a watch list, but that alone was not enough to prevent Mateen to purchase an AR-15. Congress refused to close that loophole last December. ATF says that Mateen legally purchased his weapons in the last week. Shortly before attacking Pulse, Mateen called 911 and pledged his allegiance to ISIS. According to NBC News:
Investigators are trying to determine whether religious extremism motivated the attack and piece together what exactly set off Mateen, who lived less than two hours south of Orlando in Port St. Lucie and worked as a security guard.
Mateen didn't appear to have any direct ties with ISIS, sources told NBCNews, although he was a follower of ISIS propaganda and referenced the Tsarnaev brothers, who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, at the scene of the shooting.
Based on what we know so far, the most immediate reason why Mateen chose this particular target and these particular people appears to be what Mateen saw in Miami:
Because of his name and heritage, there were immediate questions about Mateen's possible ties to Islamic fundamentalism. But his father told NBC News that his son was affected by a recent incident involving two men showing each other affection.
"We were in Downtown Miami, Bayside, people were playing music. And he saw two men kissing each other in front of his wife and kid and he got very angry," Mateen's father, Mir Seddique, told NBC News on Sunday. "They were kissing each other and touching each other and he said, 'Look at that. In front of my son they are doing that.' And then we were in the men's bathroom and men were kissing each other."
"We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident," Seddique said. "We weren't aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole country."
Seddique added: "This had nothing to do with religion."
Mateen's ex-wife describes him as being very violent:
"He was not a stable person," said the ex-wife, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety in the wake of the mass shooting. "He beat me. He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn't finished or something like that."
…"He seemed like a normal human being," she said, adding that when they were married he wasn't very religious and often worked out at the gym. She said in the few months they were married he gave no signs of having fallen under the sway of radical Islam. She said he owned a small-caliber handgun.
June 12th, 2016
There's an arbitrary FDA ban on blood donations for gay men who have had sex in the past year. It appears that the ban has been lifted, at least temporarily in Orlando. U.S. Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) released this statement at 12:30 am EST Sunday:
"Due to the critical need for blood donations in Orlando, ALL blood donations will be accepted and screened. Nobody will be turned away because of their sexual orientation. O Positive and O Negative blood types are needed most urgently. Please make appointments to donate throughout the week as there will be a continued need."
HIV Plus magazine noticed earlier that local hospitals appear to be accepting blood from all comers.
Update: Others are suggesting that the blood banks are accepting donations, but are probably using the application forms to screen out those who answer the gay-and-had-sex question to dispose of that donation.
June 12th, 2016
Here is a transcript of President Barack Obama's remarks on today's massacre:
Today, as Americans, we grieve the brutal murder — a horrific massacre — of dozens of innocent people. We pray for their families, who are grasping for answers with broken hearts. We stand with the people of Orlando, who have endured a terrible attack on their city. Although it's still early in the investigation, we know enough to say that this was an act of terror and an act of hate. And as Americans, we are united in grief, in outrage, and in resolve to defend our people.
I just finished a meeting with FBI Director Comey and my homeland security and national security advisors. The FBI is on the scene and leading the investigation, in partnership with local law enforcement. I've directed that the full resources of the federal government be made available for this investigation.
We are still learning all the facts. This is an open investigation. We've reached no definitive judgment on the precise motivations of the killer. The FBI is appropriately investigating this as an act of terrorism. And I've directed that we must spare no effort to determine what — if any — inspiration or association this killer may have had with terrorist groups. What is clear is that he was a person filled with hatred. Over the coming days, we'll uncover why and how this happened, and we will go wherever the facts lead us.
This morning I spoke with my good friend, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, and I conveyed the condolences of the entire American people. This could have been any one of our communities. So I told Mayor Dyer that whatever help he and the people of Orlando need — they are going to get it. As a country, we will be there for the people of Orlando today, tomorrow and for all the days to come.
We also express our profound gratitude to all the police and first responders who rushed into harm's way. Their courage and professionalism saved lives, and kept the carnage from being even worse. It's the kind of sacrifice that our law enforcement professionals make every single day for all of us, and we can never thank them enough.
This is an especially heartbreaking day for all our friends — our fellow Americans — who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends, to dance and to sing, and to live. The place where they were attacked is more than a nightclub — it is a place of solidarity and empowerment where people have come together to raise awareness, to speak their minds, and to advocate for their civil rights.
So this is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American — regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation — is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. And no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans.
Today marks the most deadly shooting in American history. The shooter was apparently armed with a handgun and a powerful assault rifle. This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well.
In the coming hours and days, we'll learn about the victims of this tragedy. Their names. Their faces. Who they were. The joy that they brought to families and to friends, and the difference that they made in this world. Say a prayer for them and say a prayer for their families — that God give them the strength to bear the unbearable. And that He give us all the strength to be there for them, and the strength and courage to change. We need to demonstrate that we are defined more — as a country — by the way they lived their lives than by the hate of the man who took them from us.
As we go together, we will draw inspiration from heroic and selfless acts — friends who helped friends, took care of each other and saved lives. In the face of hate and violence, we will love one another. We will not give in to fear or turn against each other. Instead, we will stand united, as Americans, to protect our people, and defend our nation, and to take action against those who threaten us.
May God bless the Americans we lost this morning. May He comfort their families. May God continue to watch over this country that we love. Thank you.
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7 December 1910, Port of Spain, Trinidad. The leader of one of the most popular - if not the most popular - Latin American band in the UK for many years, spent his early life in Venezuela, before attending the Military Academy at Caracas, where, via the Academys band, he became interested in music and learned to play the euphonium or bombardin. Despite harbouring ambitions to study criminal law, he travelled to the UK in 1937 and studied composition and harmony at the Royal Academy of Music. Although he recorded with jazzman Fats Waller in 1938, Ros mainly sang and served as a percussionist with various Latin-styled bands, including one led by pianist Don Marino Barretto. He formed his own five-piece unit, Rumba With Ros, in 1940, and for the next 35 years, played and recorded with groups such as Ros Rumba Romeos, his Rumba Band, and Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra. After making his London debut at the New Cosmos Club and St. Regis Hotel, he...


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Yellen accentuated the positive in her testimony before Congress' Joint Economic Committee last Wednesday. "I expect that economic activity will expand at a somewhat faster pace this year than it did last year," she testified, and although Yellen cited forces leading to uncertainty as well as tailwinds, her overall assessment, McCarthy wrote, was that "growth will be healthy enough for the Federal Reserve to continue steadily reducing its purchases of securities over the next several months."
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When it comes to implications for the commercial real estate sector here and in Europe, writes McCarthy, "these different outlooks and policy approaches indicate that value drivers will be very different." In the US, returns will be driven by "improving fundamentals as stronger economic growth, in an environment with little new construction deliveries, pushes vacancy lower and places upward pressure on rents. Interest rates are expected to rise in the U.S. during the balance of 2014." In the euro zone, meanwhile, "a combination of more attractive pricing and low financing rates will be the main forces enabling investors to obtain attractive returns. Interest rates are most likely to fall, making financing more attractive to those who can obtain it and enhancing returns even in a sluggish market." They'll stay low in Europe through next year, he adds.


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Greg Iles lives up to the promise of his previous bestseller, 24 Hours, with a new thriller that showcases his ability to deliver top-level suspense as well as multidimensional characterization. When Jordan Glass, a world-renowned photojournalist, happens on an exhibit of a series of paintings known as "The Sleeping Women," she is stunned to discover that one of the models--a nude who, like the other women in the paintings, looks dead rather than asleep--is her mirror image. But Jordan knows the face in the painting isn't her; it's her twin sister, Jane, who disappeared from her New Orleans home more than a year ago, and is presumed to have been murdered by a serial killer who's been snatching women off the streets of the Crescent City for at least that long. None of the bodies of the missing women have turned up, but their faces match the models in the other Sleeping Women paintings. A veteran FBI agent named John Kaiser brings Jordan into the Bureau's hunt for the anonymous artist, who may also know something about the disappearance of Jordan's father in Vietnam almost 30 years before.
This is a taut, well-crafted thriller with a nice secondary love story that's woven into the action without slowing it down. Jordan is a fascinating, many-sided character who's a little too tough to be wholly believable, but that's a minor quibble. While winning well-deserved new fans for Iles, Dead Sleep will keep his readers awake until the very last page. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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There is nothing dead about the writing or reading of Iles's latest--both are imaginative and exciting from beginning to end. Award-winning Mississippi journalist Jordan Glass, whose twin sister disappeared 18 months earlier, comes upon a portrait of her reposing in death for sale to art connoisseurs. Thus begins the intense search for a serial killer who has abducted and painted dozens of beautiful women. As the plot twists and turns, Breck captures Jordan's Southern accent, a male FBI agent's staccato pronouncements, and an art professor's courtly manner. Susie Breck is at her best when portraying a steamy alliance between heroine and agent and in the tense moments leading to the breathless conclusion. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.See all Product Description
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The plot might have been satisfying enough with compelling characters and an interesting writing style to back it up, but the writing didn't do much for me, and I was distracted throughout much of the book with the glaring fact that this was a male author writing a female first-person narrator. In my opinion, if you can't successfully write a protagonist of the opposite sex, it's not sufficient to bandaid the problem by continuously mentioning how unconventionally masculine your female character is - just write it with a male lead and let the reader enjoy the juicy storyline.
The internal workings of the FBI, the love story with the agent, the four suspects and their stories - it is beyond me how anyone can find fault with this book. True, it is not an action packed thriller (quote unquote) but for those who are more inclined to the thriller (as opposed to the shoot-em-up type), it is a welcome addition.
There is a luscious cast of characters, both suspects and investigators. The plot is well developed, and all too plausible since many women do disappear from their lives. Most do not run away from the two children and a good husband they adore. Jane certainly didn't leave them intentionally.
I enjoyed Iles contemplation of the connections between identical twins. Even with Jordan's memory about the moment she felt her sister's death, she never gave up hope that Jane would be found alive. Perhaps the sensations she thought were Jane's death weren't. After learning what happened to Jane, I wondered if Jane had felt similar sensations about Jordan - that is how "real" these characters were.
This book is outstanding; it is a page-turner in the truest sense of the words. I came to some of the same conclusions as Jordan did, but in the end only her creativity and depth of knowledge could save her life.
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As a successful, professional photographer, Jordan Glass is recognized in her field, as her famous father once was. He has been missing, presumed dead in Cambodia for over 30 years. She has always missed him and never given up on the fact that he may still be alive, but has kept an emotional distance from any man she could love and possibly lose again. At 40 years of age she remains single.
While in Hong Kong on a business trip she browses an art gallery and is puzzled by the gasps of onlookers as they look at her and back at a painting of a woman in "repose." As she approaches the painting the reason for the stares are obvious - the woman in the painting looks exactly like her. Is she asleep or dead? She looks dead, and it disturbs her a great deal, as her twin sister has been missing for over a year. Could she have been killed and posed for the painter? Thus begins a story with so many twists and turns that you have to keep reading it. It is very well done. There is no shortage of action once it gets moving. It involves the FBI, the NOPD, swat teams, and the reader gets well acquainted with them too.
I have not read a book of this caliber for some time. The last half of the book was especially hard to put down, and kept me up many nights past my bedtime.
If you are the type that has to have your attention grabbed on the first page, be a little patient with "Dead Sleep" - it will be worth the short wait. It is a good book for either a man or a woman. Give it as a gift to an avid reader, you won't be sorry, and neither will they!
Dead Sleep could be the best thriller writer writen by a male author from the feminine perspective ever. Jordon Glass is one of the most well rounded human characters I've met in recent fiction. Iles resists the temptation there must be to put his heroine on any type of pedastal and instead helps his character connect with readers by lending her strength because and in spite of her flaws.
The plot is relentless as Photojournalist Jordon Glass helps the FBI task force try to solve the mysterious disappearance of women(including her twin sister) whose images eerily appear in art. This novel is well researched pertaining to art world and the characters esaily leap off page into readers' imagination. Iles plotting pacing and characterization in this story lead me to call him a blooming literary maestro in his field. The ending while viewed by some admittedly as being hokey and contrived i view as uplifting testament to human spirit and thank you Mr. Iles for great read.
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Love love love this author -- Greg Iles is always an awesome read -- this taut, imaginative story hits all the right notes and tells the great back story of two of his beloved... Read morePublished 11 months ago by Jilla Lonsdale
Greg Iles is a talented writer, and an especially gifted narrator. This book, however, doesn't even begin to showcase his talent. Read morePublished on June 25 2004 by Author Ty
This is the first time I have read a Greg Iles novel and it will be the last one I read of his. Don't get me wrong it was an interesting idea but I felt it fell apart towards the... Read morePublished on Dec 15 2003 by T. Iverson
After reading his previous books which are geat mysteries, this has disappointed greatly. Wierd is not descriptive enough. Read morePublished on July 29 2003 by Paul Siesser
This story by Greg Iles, as read by Ms. Susie Breck (very attractive, according to the photo on the back of the audio version [abridged]) is a compelling story, well read, and has... Read morePublished on July 23 2003 by michael d. chlanda
Greg Iles returns to delivering a complex and suspenseful plot with intriguing characters in Dead Sleep. Like Mortal Fear, this is also a present day serial killer thriller. Read morePublished on July 8 2003 by mackattack9988
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Posted on 12/12/2012 11:59:33 AM PST by IbJensen
CNSNews.com) Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said Tuesday the U.S. has made it increasingly difficult for Hezbollah terrorists and their supporters to cross the U.S.-Mexico border--but there is still more work to do to make the border secure.
However, Lieberman also warned that we don't want to lose American freedom by trying to keep terrorist from crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S.
The securitys better on the U.S.-Mexican border than it has been before in terms of terrorists capacity to break through our borders in the south, but we still have more work to do. We have such a big border that we constantly have to get better, Lieberman told CNSNews.com at a Capitol Hill press conference.
I dont know that were ever going to reach the point where were going to say OK, we have enough defenses on our border because its so big and of course our country is a free country and we dont want to lose that freedom in trying to keep the terrorists out, he said.
Hezbollah is a terrorist organization based in Lebanon that was formed in 1982 with direct sponsorship from Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, and continues to receive material support from Iran.
In 2008, Mexican national and former Tijuana restaurant owner Samil Boughader Mucharrafille was sentenced to 60 years in prison in Mexico for smuggling 200 people across the U.S.-Mexico border, some of whom were reportedly Hezbollah supporters.
In 2005, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani was convicted for sending material support to Hezbollah from Dearborn, Mich., after bribing an immigration official to obtain a visa and enter the U.S. from Mexico in 2001.
There also have been several reports indicating a strategic alliance between Hezbollah and Mexican drug cartels.
According to investigative journalist Doug Farah, who testified on July 7, 2011 before the House subcommittee on counter-terrorism and intelligence, there are narco-tunnels used for smuggling people and resources that resemble tunnels used by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Lieberman, along with Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), announced a Senate resolution Tuesday that urges the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
CNSNews.com subsequently asked Lieberman about Hezbollahs possible penetration of the U.S. border: Senator, Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton said recently that Iran is exporting terrorism in a global fashion from Mexico to Thailand. And we know of instances when Hezbollah members have come across the U.S.-Mexico border. There was [Mahmoud] Youseff Kourani who was convicted in 2005, the brother of a Hezbollah commander. Do you believe the U.S.-Mexico border is secure enough?
Lieberman responded: Well, first off, your question makes a point that I dont think is widely enough appreciated in our country, that in the last year or two, the Iranian regime -- particularly through this Quds force that Ive mentionedis operating much more globally than they did before.
He continued, I will say this, and I know something about this because of my role as the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, the Department of Homeland Security and others have been really beefing up security on the Mexican border and illegal immigration has gone way down.
But all that security has also made it harder for Hezbollah to break through our borders and its an argument for why we have to not just focus on so-called illegal immigration but really on terrorists trying to break through our southern border, he said. Its getting harder to do that because we have more personnel down there and much more sophisticated electronic equipment that the US government has set up
CNSNews.com followed up: So would you say its secure enough or is there still work to do?
The securitys better on the U.S.-Mexican border than it has been before in terms of terrorists capacity to break through our borders in the south but we still have more work to do. We have such a big border that we constantly have to get better, he said.
I dont know that were ever going to reach the point where were going to say, OK, we have enough defenses on our border because its so big and of course our country is a free country and we dont want to lose that freedom in trying to keep the terrorists out.
Sickening, boring old Joe Lieberman will support anything; even lie to promote an agenda which undermines, and will eventually guarantee the destruction of western European culture on a world wide basis. He and his comrades in government, finance and the state run propaganda industry are doing a very effective job of killing America! The neocons who think this jackass is brilliant (like Hannity) because he ran as in Independant are patently stupid!
He supports terrorists.
It is simple.
He is traitor to the American people.
Everyone wants to live in freedom and security.
But... we have to make sure first that we are GOING TO LIVE!
I am in much more danger of losing my freedom by guaranteeing the mythical "uninsured" of health insurance.
"OK, we have enough defenses on our border because its so big"
Has the senator ever SEEN the Great Wall of China??
"Everyone wants to live in freedom and security."
San Fransicko is deploying audio surveillance on their busses. Jersey City just put up a cell tower to pick up voices. We now have drones patrolling areas looking for pockets of dissent.
I can see where the MSM thought Bush was spying on us because he wanted to monitor foreign phone calls for potential terrorist activity but Obama is doing it for our freedom.
Hannity should but never will ask Howdy to explain how a secure border adversely affects our freedoms
Lose freedom if we put up a border fence? How is that???
The terrorist at 1600 Penn Ave will take it away from us Joe.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Joe, you dunce - the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Now go rinse out your drool cup and wait for pudding at 3pm.
It worked real well, didn't it?
Freedom? I vaguely remember freedom.
The securitys better on the U.S.-Mexican border than it has been before in terms of terrorists capacity to break through our borders in the south, but we still have more work to do. We have such a big border that we constantly have to get better, Lieberman told CNSNews.com at a Capitol Hill press conference.
HUH? better in terms of terrorists breaking through?? Sorry but that is political speak nonsense. If illegal aliens can cross the border by the tens of thousands on a regular basis then the border is not secure, PERIOD!
Freedom to ride on your own ranch without being shot and killed?
"If we protect our borders the terrorists win."
More liberal nonsense.
It's been suggested he's working on a new version for distribution after approval from his constituents. It allegedly starts like this:
We, the Enablers of the Commodious Government, in Order to comply with a more correct Mynd, overlook Injustice, risk domestic Tranquility, withhold for the common defense, encourage Welfare and surrender the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity do ordain and willingly establish our dependence on Big Government and mindless Consumerism.
Copies will be distributed through his party contacts.
You only have that ranch because you stole it from some poor Mexican. Check out the map of La Raza.
Huh???? to the title
I was thinking the same thing. How in the world is securing our border with Mexico losing freedom for Americans?
The only thing I can think of is that he is following Marx on the elimination of national borders. If that is the case, drag him out of office and charge him with treason.
Glad to see Lieberman leave.
He walks oin Saturdays, not using a car, becasue that si against his Orthodox JEwish religion.
But that religion never stopped him from voting fro abortion every chance he had.
Nor supporting Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
It never surpirsed me that he and McCain teamed up all the time. They are two biggest liars and posers DC has ever seen—and that is saying somehting.
Just thinking of lightweight Hannity and his "good friend" Joe as I was reading this.
Lieberman doesn't call himself Orthodox; he apparently refers to himself as "observant", which is a vague word.
He and thousands of others call themselves Jewish Americans and pretend serious concern.
Slap a yamulka on his head and pin a mazzuzah on his brave chest. Then put him on the fron lines in Israel to fight the evil Hamas, et al. He's as though as a banana.
Each belief from the Torah he couldn't care any less.
Is voting record has always been close to 0.
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